Installing

You have several options to include sqlite-vec into your projects, including PyPi packages for Python, NPM packages for Node.js, Gems for Ruby, and more.

With popular package managers

Python

pip install sqlite-vec

Node.js

npm install sqlite-vec

Bun

bun install sqlite-vec

Deno

deno add npm:sqlite-vec

Ruby

gem install sqlite-vec

Rust

cargo add sqlite-vec

Go (CGO)

go get -u github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec-go-bindings/cgo

Go (ncruces WASM)

go get -u github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec-go-bindings/ncruces

Datasette

datasette install datasette-sqlite-vec

sqlite-utils

sqlite-utils install sqlite-utils-sqlite-vec

Pre-compiled extensions

Alternatively, you can download pre-compiled loadable extensions from the sqlite-vec Github Releases.

There's also an install.sh script that will automatically download the appropriate pre-compiled extension from Github Releases to your machine.

# yolo
curl -L 'https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec/releases/latest/download/install.sh' | sh

# ok lets play it safe
curl -o install.sh -L https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec/releases/latest/download/install.sh
# inspect your scripts
cat install.sh
# TODO Test if execute permissions?
./install.sh

Compiling

sqlite-vec is a single sqlite-vec.c and sqlite-vec.h, and can be easily compiled for different platforms, or statically linked into larger applications.

See Compiling sqlite-vec for more information.